Brigham Young sent settlers out from Utah in 1865 to establish a Mormon colony at the meeting of the Muddy and the Virgin Rivers. In 1938, when the waters of Lake Mead began rising behind the recently completed Hoover Dam, the town of 500 had to be abandoned.

When gushing hot water threatened the production of the ever-deepening Virginia City mines, bonanza-era entrepreneur Adolph Sutro offered an audacious solution. He would build a tunnel from Dayton up to the Comstock’s mines.

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is at 7,000 feet on the western slope of central Nevada’s Shoshone mountain range. Berlin saw its heyday in 1908, diminishing to nothing by 1911. The total production of the Berlin mine was estimated to have been $849,000.